AI's Rapid Acceleration: The World Won't Wait For You

The AI revolution isn't coming—it's already here, and it's moving faster than most people realize.

Meta just released Llama 4 with a mind-boggling 10 million token context window—that's enough to hold 75 novels or 1 million lines of code in memory at once.

Just last week, Google's flagship model maxed out at 1 million tokens. We've literally 10x'd capability in seven days.

Meanwhile, Shopify's CEO just mandated AI usage for every employee in the company, declaring it a "baseline expectation." His memo explicitly states: before asking for more headcount, you must prove why you can't get the job done using AI.

He expects each employee to 10x themselves. This isn't theoretical.

A private school in Texas started using AI tutors and rocketed their students' test scores to the top 2% in the country. Not in their district—in the entire nation.

The chasm is widening between those who leverage these tools and those who don't. Every week on our show, we document a new frontier model leapfrogging the previous best.

There's a reason why A16Z is raising a $20 billion AI super fund right now. The most sobering perspective comes from "AI 2027," a roadmap authored by some of the brightest minds in the field.

They paint a timeline where we reach artificial super intelligence by 2027. Not someday. Not in our lifetimes. Within three years.

What's striking is how many people remain completely unaware. I asked my non-tech friends how often they use ChatGPT—most don't use it at all.

Others just treat it like an enhanced Google search, missing its true potential entirely.

The divide between AI power users and everyone else grows by the day. Some are creating personalized AI therapists, career advisors, and learning companions—tools that know them better than most humans do.

Others haven't even started. When I asked ChatGPT to generate an image of me based on what it knows, it produced a startlingly accurate portrait—down to my climbing gear, espresso preference, and favorite cocktails.

I never explicitly told it these things. It just knows me. The question isn't whether AI will transform your industry—it's whether you'll be driving that transformation or swept away by it.

The middle ground is vanishing before our eyes. The future won't wait for you to catch up.